Sir Malcolm Delevingne drew attention to the effect that in the year 150 tons of Persian opium Wore shipped to Vladivostok.
Sir John Campbell pointed out that, as long as no control existed in Turkey and Persia the proceedings of the Committee were marked by_a sense of unreality.
Mr. Lyall in an impressive statement on the situation in China said that the opium revenue of the Shanghai district was $2,000,000 annually. At present there was no prospect of ameliorating the posi tion, The situation with regard to morphine in China was worse than it was 20 years ago, Incalculable harm had been done. The people were convinced that "Britain was ponsible for the introduction of opium into China, Lyall recognized that Japan was doing everything possible to ficulties in the way.
Mr, Chao emphasized China's policy of prohibition, He admitted there had been slackness in the carrying out of it but, he said, China was not master in its own house. was, difielt to control foreign concessions and nations Mr. Chao gave large figures of imports of morphine, heroin and cocaine into China and mentioned that the Chinese authorities had seized 1,400 kilos of opium and large lay concluded its examination of the available statistics regarding illicit traffic.
Sir John Campbell (India) drew attention to the smuggling of six tons of Indian opium, which was re-exported from French Indo-China fo Macao. He desired to know how it escaped the knowledge of the French authorities.
M. Bourgeois (France) replied length. He described the control Trade in the Far East Apr. 23.
At a public sitting of the Opium Committee to-day, Sir Malcolm De-Tevingne said there had been no change in the illicit traffic in raw opium since the last session of the Committee, The export from Persia had not abated and the smuggling of China opium continued. remedy was visible till onder was restored in China. He agreed with Signor Cavazzoni that limitation of manufacture was the only final solution. That had always teen the British Government's view.
He paid a tribute to the Dutch suppressive action.
There was still a lame traffic to the United States, Canada, the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece, where, he said, imports were greater than the legal requirements, but the Far East was, the worst. He suggested closer ce-operation with South America and prompt communication of seizures to Govern-
The Committee agreed with Sir Malcolm's summary.
Baron Sato suggestd co-opera tion with Afghanistan in the control of opium.
Apr. 24.
The Opium Committes has decided to refer the question of illicit trafic in drugs through the Pest Office to the next. con ference of the International Postal Union, which is meeting in April, 1929.
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